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[JiF]Mike · Post by **[JiF]Mike** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:43 pm

If it did/does I don't think I knew about it.

[JiF]DispDave · Post by **[JiF]DispDave** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:56 pm

Yeah - it was in the old forums I think and you posted about it.

I think Step noticed/commented on it too.

Maybe not spyware but that same thing that BMG did?

[JiF]DispDave · Post by **[JiF]DispDave** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:57 pm

Do a google on trackmania & spyware! Wow

I found a thing called Starforce that I remember us talking/worrying about.

[JiF]Stepovich · Post by **[JiF]Stepovich** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:18 pm

If it's using Starforce, stay away.

It's software protection- I think a lot of the big name
game makers have stopped using it, like Ubisoft.

[JiF]Sly Gambit · Post by **[JiF]Sly Gambit** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:31 pm

[JiF]Stepovich wrote:If it's using Starforce, stay away.

It's software protection- I think a lot of the big name
game makers have stopped using it, like Ubisoft.

Yeah they had set to use it in Heroes of Might and Magic V but they ripped the Starforce protection out just weeks before it went gold because of the negative feedback. I wouldn't have bought the game with Starforce in it.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6147655.html

Galactic Civilizations 2 was/is one of the best 4D space strategy simulations out there and they don't use ANY copy protection. Starforce linked to an illegal download of it in what appeared to be a concerted effort to prove to other manufacturers that you have to have copy protection. Very, very shady.

[JiF]Mike · Post by **[JiF]Mike** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:14 pm

Hmm..I don't remember any of this. I must be getting old.

I absolutely loved that game...was one of the funnest racing games I had ever played. It's not like copy protection works anyway, with a little looking around I have found many cracks for the game. No idea if any of them work, but it took like 1 minutes with a Google search.